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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Sogolon beg to borrow from Sassouma?
(a) A branch.
(b) An egg.
(c) A leaf.
(d) A berry.
2. What is the role of a griot?
(a) Spiritual advisor.
(b) Story teller.
(c) King.
(d) Medicine man.
3. How does Kanty treat men who disagree with him?
(a) He debates with them.
(b) He kills them.
(c) He tortures them.
(d) He puts them in prison.
4. Which group of African people is focused on in Sundiata's story?
(a) The working class.
(b) The servants.
(c) The peseants.
(d) The kings.
5. What animal do the villagers attribute to the new baby?
(a) A lion.
(b) A flamingo.
(c) A gazelle.
(d) A gorilla.
6. How does Fakoli react to Kanty's theft?
(a) He forgives him.
(b) He curses him.
(c) He kills him.
(d) He ignores him.
7. Whose griot is Kouyaty?
(a) Sundiata's.
(b) Soumaoro Kanty's.
(c) Dankaran's.
(d) Manding Bory's.
8. How does the king react to the news that Sogolon has gone into labor?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is completely apathetic.
(c) He is very nervous.
(d) He is not home when the news breaks out.
9. How does the king feel when Manding Bory is born?
(a) He is frustrated.
(b) He is apathetic.
(c) He is confused.
(d) He is excited.
10. Which of the following groups of people claimed to know all along that Sundiata would rise up and walk?
(a) The griots.
(b) The witches.
(c) The sorcerers.
(d) The outcasts.
11. What object does the hunter use to tell the king's fortune?
(a) Tarot cards.
(b) Seashells.
(c) Tea leaves.
(d) Bones.
12. What animal does the hunter who approaches Maghan Kon Fatta offer to him?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) A deer.
(c) A lion.
(d) A bird.
13. In what country is Sundiata named heir to a childless king?
(a) Lema.
(b) Fema.
(c) Bema.
(d) Mema.
14. Who urges Dankaran to hate his brothers?
(a) Manding Bory.
(b) Fassyky.
(c) Sassouma.
(d) Sogolon.
15. What are Sundiata's ancestors known for being able to extract from plants and herbs that others cannot?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Spirits.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sundiata discover about Mansa Konkon, the king of Djedeba?
2. What skill does Fassyky teach Sundiata to do?
3. Which of the following elements does Kanty and his men have mastery over?
4. How old is young Djata when the reader first sees him again after his birth?
5. Which character is forced into Kanty's employment?
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